California Gov. Gavin Newsom is predicting more wildfires because of President Donald Trump's policies, the Daily Caller reported. The state is about to go into its hot, dry season that often sparks off these fires no matter who is president.
Newsom has mismanaged his state into several crises, including wildfires. However, the California Democrat is blaming Trump for these preventable natural disasters rather than proactively preparing.
"Donald Trump isn’t just threatening CA’s disaster aid, he’s also pushing for dangerous cuts ahead of wildfire season. A 63% REDUCTION in the U.S. Forest Service’s budget. A 30% REDUCTION in workforce — 10,000 employees … He is literally playing politics with people’s lives," Newsom posted to X, formerly Twitter, on Friday.
Donald Trump isn’t just threatening CA’s disaster aid, he’s also pushing for dangerous cuts ahead of wildfire season —
A 63% REDUCTION in the U.S. Forest Service’s budget. A 30% REDUCTION in workforce — 10,000 employees.
The agency is the nation’s largest firefighting entity.… pic.twitter.com/YrVKfyaBPv
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) June 20, 2025
For decades, legal roadblocks have hindered the effective implementation of forest management techniques in the name of environmental conservation. Fallen trees, dead leaves, and other materials pile up on forest floors.
Measures like controlled burns or cleanouts are tied up in litigation as the material dries out and becomes kindling waiting for a spark. Like most things Democrats have destroyed in the process of trying to help, this has been done to millions of acres of wilderness.
Meanwhile, Newsom and his ilk are looking to blame the inevitable results on Trump's climate change policies and cuts. In a second post made on Saturday, the governor said Trump was engaged in "sabotage" because an article claimed that 20% of the National Guard troops the president deployed were fighting wildfires.
This adds to the predictions Newsom made last month ahead of fire season. He stated that the cuts the Trump administration made to the bloated bureaucracy, including the Forest Service, would create "rampant uncertainty ahead of peak wildfire season."
Other Democrats are making similar predictions, including California Sen. Alex Padilla. In February, Padilla claimed Trump's "flagrantly illegal" budget cuts to conservation agencies would "jeopardize communities that depend on a robust federal response to our wildfire crisis."
Of course, wildlife expert and author Bob Zybach could see right through these accusations. "The problem isn’t all these massive numbers of wildfires," Zybach, who has run the Oregon Websites & Watersheds Project for nearly 30 years, told the Daily Caller.
"The problem is the financial end of it. It’s not Trump, it’s the people, the litigants, who keep suing to shut down the timber industry which has allowed the fuels to build up," Zybach charged.
Zybach said this is more than just a state problem, as federal regulations under then-President Bill Clinton massively hindered proper forest management long before Newsom. "In the 1970s and ’80s, California and Oregon didn’t have these fires," Zybach said.
"Then we put in the Clinton plan, the Northwest Forest Plan … I was on the cover of the national magazine Evergreen in 1994 and said, ‘If we put in the Clinton plan, we’re going to have catastrophic wildfires.’ And my predictions were accurate," Zybach noted.
These fires happen every year, and Newsom can spend this time preparing resources. Instead, Newsom and his cronies are too busy blaming Trump for a problem that has been brewing for decades and is made worse by climate change hysteria.
